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by three14 16y ago
There's a huge difference between having to maintain a fork and just writing the extra features you want. No one has the right to insist that other people spend the time the way you want them to, but you can certainly complain about thei
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by three14 16y ago
Part of the problem is that HN is extremely time sensitive. You see different stories an hour or two later. Adding a comment behaves differently depending when it's added. Anything that would make participating a day later just like part
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by three14 16y ago
Not only does it help, but it helps even those of us without the prerequisites. Never underestimate the power of good writing. Thanks. (Mind you, I'm still not convinced this is worthwhile, since it appears that the point could be made mor
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by three14 16y ago
That's spot on. I don't understand a lot of high-level physics or Continental Philosophy, but the same process that leads me to believe that the physicists aren't sitting around BSing all day leads me to believe that the philosophers are .
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by three14 16y ago
I call strawman. It's not McCartney and Perelman, it's Chomsky and Continental Philosophy.
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What are the tax consequences?
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by three14 16y ago
I'm not responding to the specific story in the article, but - Several of my grandparents had dementia of one sort or another. They clearly could still enjoy life, but completely differently than when they had their faculties. I wonder, i
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It was interesting to me because it didn't occur to me that there's a "domain parking page look" that would still look like a domain parking page even with real content.
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by three14 16y ago
You're right about the article itself, but you're missing the context. Greenspun has had a long series of nuggets of cynicism that make up most of his blog posts. Together, they paint a picture that gives more excuse for his cynicism. - P
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by three14 16y ago
From the help for the Vista version of the Snipping Tool: Can I capture a snip of a menu, such as a shortcut menu or the Start menu? Yes. Here's how to do it: Click to open Snipping Tool. On the Snipping Tool toolbar, click the Minimize bu
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by three14 16y ago
That's exactly what's so interesting about these kinds of questions. Let's say they were really censoring, and they said, "No, we are not censoring #flotilla," and stopped censoring. You can't tell the difference between that and a bug fo
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by three14 16y ago
I think it's just human. "#flotilla not working on Twitter. Censorship or bug?" would be a better choice because it isn't a leading question. Edit: Is a headline like "Did pressure from Apple cause a Foxconn employee to commit suicide?" ne
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by three14 16y ago
You're right, of course. But I still think that someone skimming the HN headlines thinks, "Oh, Twitter probably censoring something or it wouldn't be on HN" unless they read the comments.
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When did you stop beating your wife? I understand that you actually mean well, and mean the question seriously, but in "Internet discussion" the question mark only protects the reputation of the asker, but does nothing to protect the reputa
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by three14 16y ago
I used to work for an arbitration group. One case involved a couple that was divorcing, and he had, in fact, said to her that he thought he had never loved her. And it was self-evident to any third party that he was lying to himself and to
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by three14 16y ago
Don't you think the burden of proof is the other way around? We see selection effects all the time. Shouldn't you expect super programmers to get more done because they're simply better programmers? It's a strawman argument to say that, "
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Rethinking Police Searches of Computers(freedom-to-tinker.com)
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by three14 16y ago
Thanks. I'm still not sure where the thousands of times the speed of old processors is going, though - 15% doesn't account for it, unless there are a lot of layers - 50 or so, no? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=1.15^50
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by three14 16y ago
I've been wondering if anyone has actually checked - is the performance loss really just because of all the layers? Is there a straightforward alternative?
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by three14 17y ago
The out-of-the-way station should have cheaper real estate costs, and should have cheaper prices to lure repeat customers to travel further (more customers x cheaper price can be more than fewer x more expensive).
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by three14 17y ago
The claim seems to be that if I waste an hour of my time and an hour of yours, then that's two hours down the drain. I agree with it. (Although it seems to be missing * 5 days in a week.)
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by three14 17y ago
Working fine from Israel at the moment. Of course, they may have meant denounced. The "or blocked" is extremely unlikely here. There is a censor here, meaning you often here news reports like "a missile has landed somewhere, no one hurt,
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by three14 17y ago
Agreed -- and this is an easier read than your top comment :)
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by three14 17y ago
This isn't quite fair to the original post. He makes at least two points you ignore: The data is unencrypted some of the time on their servers. You shouldn't use ZumoDrive if you're a Chinese dissident because it's presumptively insecure a
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by three14 17y ago
If you're willing to make a few hundred thousand people have more trouble finding what they're looking for by landing them on your stub pages, just for your personal gain, does that make you the best guy in the world?
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There's a big difference between the earthquake case, where it's really unlikely that there's a dude who will actually set off a bomb, and here, where it's guaranteed that over the whole internet, there's at least one dude who is going to
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by three14 17y ago
aryeh-yc@yucs.org Thanks!
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by three14 17y ago
I see some of you have accounts. Anybody willing to explain how this is different from Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers? I didn't find the About page enlightening. Thanks!
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by three14 17y ago
The problem with patents is they kill all kinds of innovation. Once one company, let's say Apple, gets some patents in an area, then no one else can work in the same space. Give Apple all the copyrights they want plus trademarks and design
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by three14 17y ago
I read somewhere [citation needed] that the reason that you don't see a real correlation is that the rich effectively tend to pay somewhere around a 40% tax rate. As tax rates go up, it starts to pay to look for tax shelters, and get non

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